Hans Witvliet wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 13:45 +0200, Dsant wrote:
>   
>> In short : Which Virtual machine does PCI-Express graphic card passthrough ?
>> Xen, KVM, VIrtualBox, lxc containers ?
>>
>> Long : I would like to run proprietary Linux games in a guest (host and 
>> guest 
>> Linux). Which virtual machine really works for 3D ? The graphic card can be 
>> cut off from the host, it's not a problem.
>>
>> Dsant
>>     
>
> Never done it myself,
>
> But last couple of years i've seen more than a couple of messages on the
> xen-list regarding doing pci-passthrough of one (or multiple) vga-cards
> towards domU's. (both para- and full-virtualisation)
>   

Although I haven't personally tried, there has been some success with
GPU passthrough on Xen.  IIRC, success is more likely with some cards
than others.  E.g. the Intel cards work pretty well.

> Can't tell about kvm or virtualbox, but for LXC it seems unlikely...
>   

I think the same can be said for KVM, but also don't know about
VirtualBox.  Definitely not possible with LXC.

Regards,
Jim

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